This master plan addresses the challenges facing Los Piletones, an informal settlement located between Buenos Aires and the province of Buenos Aires. Los Piletones is bounded by a highway, defunct flood control lakes, an abandoned amusement park, social housing projects, a sports complex and university, and a large green space. The plan aims to help local organizations address the social, economic and environmental conditions in Los Piletones. It focuses on infrastructure issues while leveraging the community's location between the city and park. The design solutions and initiatives in the plan facilitate integrating Los Piletones into Buenos Aires while preserving its distinct identity.

3. Masterplan for Los Piletones
Ciudad Autonomia De Buenos Aires
Lago Regulador
Riachuelo Watershed
Connection to Riachuelo
The story of Buenos Aires is one of arrival. The city was settled by successive waves of people seeking economic and social opportunity. Buenos
Aires’ structure and appearance bears witness to the legacy of immigration. Historically divided by wealth, the north and south of Buenos Aires
span the cultural reality of the 21st-century megacity. Los Piletones is a villa located on the boundary between CABA and the province of Buenos
Aires. This particular villa is situated on the edge of informal and formal economies with inconsistent definitions of citizenship and land rights. This
community is physically bounded by an elevated regional highway and a defunct system of flood regulating cisterns and lakes. The failure of
this water system compounds a number of the challenges facing the community. Surrounding Los Piletones are a number of distinct land uses;
to the south is an abandoned amusement park dominated by a space needle replica, to the east is social housing built by various previous
governmental agencies, to the north exists a sports complex and university and to the west is one of the largest green spaces in the south of the
city. The highway, lake, and space needle serve as orienting landmarks within the community. Within Los Piletones, the housing patterns and
street layouts lack logic and rigid geometry, they currently reflect the unstructured nature of informal settlements.
Villa de Los Piletones
Corporacion Buenos Aires Sur is a local entity formed to spearhead the south’s economic development and social integration. This master
plan is intended to assist such organizations in addressing the challenges and opportunities posed by the social, economic and environmental
conditions of Los Piletones. The plan focuses primarily on the current infrastructure deficit while capitalizing on the settlement’s privileged position
at the nexus between city and park. This master plan incorporates a number of design solutions and program initiatives that facilitate the
integration Los Piletones into Buenos Aires proper while maintaining the unique identity of the neighborhood.